A brief video of Edward Snowden's meeting Friday with human rights activists in the Russian transit terminal has emerged.

The video, provided by Russian website Life News, shows Snowden giving a statement and pausing as it is translated into Russian for the group.

"I had a family, a home in paradise, and I lived in great comfort," Snowden says. "I also had the capability, without any warrant of law, to search for, seize, and read your communications. ... Anyone's communications at any time. That is the power to change people's fates."

Through a Google Translation of the Life News website, it was noted that activists were banned from recording video or taking pictures on camera phones. It looks like that ban did not work.

At one point as he speaks, an announcement is made in the airport — bringing his statement to a halt as the group erupts in laughter.

"I've heard this many times over the last several weeks," Snowden says.